adjective. Barefoot or wearing sandals. Used of certain religious orders.

Without shoes; unshod; barefooted: specifically applied to a branch of the Carmelite monks known as Discalceati (the barefooted).

adjective. Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced.

adjective. shoeless; barefoot; without shoes on; wearing sandals rather than shoes.

adjective. (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals

"In 1614, the new branch known now (as then) as "discalced" were freed from dependence on the general of the order; and in 1622 Pope Gregory XV approved their constitutions."

Discalced Carmelites  dis-  

Carmelite  Spanish  abstinent  bumble  capuchin  

barefooted  unshod